Recalling its resolution 53/111 of 9 December 1998, in which it decided to
establish an open-ended intergovernmental ad hoc committee for the purpose of
elaborating a comprehensive international convention against transnational
organized crime and of discussing the elaboration, as appropriate, of international
instruments addressing trafficking in women and children, combating the illicit
manufacturing of and trafficking in firearms, their parts and components and
ammunition, and illegal trafficking in and transporting of migrants, including by sea,
Recalling also its resolution 54/126 of 17 December 1999, in which it
requested the Ad Hoc Committee on the Elaboration of a Convention against
Transnational Organized Crime to continue its work, in accordance with resolutions
53/111 and 53/114 of 9 December 1998, and to intensify that work in order to
complete it in 2000,
Recalling further its resolution 54/129 of 17 December 1999, in which it
accepted with appreciation the offer of the Government of Italy to host a high-level
political signing conference in Palermo for the purpose of signing the United
Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (Palermo Convention)
and the protocols thereto, and requested the Secretary-General to schedule the
conference for a period of up to one week before the end of the Millennium
Assembly in 2000,